Collaborative Research: Conference: 2024 Aspiring PIs in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace

协作研究：会议：2024 年安全可信网络空间中的有抱负的 PI

• 批准号: 2404951
• 负责人: Christopher Kanich
• 金额: $ 2.57万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2404951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Conference; 2024; Aspiring

The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program (SaTC) is the premiere NSF program for supporting research in computer security and privacy. New principal investigators, whom we term aspiring PIs, often find writing their first successful SaTC funding proposal intimidating and difficult. This project funds a 1.5 day workshop to support these aspiring PIs in preparing competitive SaTC funding proposals. The workshop's goals are to provide mentorship and direct feedback to aspiring PIs on their proposals, which can represent either their first submission attempt or a revision of a previously declined proposal. The workshop's novelties are its one-on-one meetings with mentors about their research plans, participation in mock panels that simulate the NSF's merit review process, and the development of a research executive summary. Together, these activities are designed to help aspiring PIs develop compelling and comprehensive research plans. The workshop's broader significance and importance are the impact these activities will have on better equipping aspiring PIs from a range of institutions and backgrounds to write competitive SaTC proposals, better reflecting the breadth of the nation's researchers and their ideas.Writing a successful funding proposal often requires substantial implicit knowledge about community expectations and norms. Experienced PIs (i.e., those who have previously been funded) and their colleagues draw on past experiences having proposals reviewed, as well as "folk knowledge" from discussions with their peers. Aspiring PIs who lack this experience typically experience lower levels of success in the competitive funding process even though their intellectual ideas might match or exceed those of experienced PIs. Notably, experienced PIs are more likely to work at large universities that already receive generous NSF support, be part of existing professional networks, and come from the same academic lineages. The aspiring PI workshop aims to ensure that aspiring PIs' ideas about improving the nation's security and privacy are on a more level playing field with experienced PIs' ideas.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

安全和值得信赖的网络空间计划（SATC）是美国国家科学基金会支持计算机安全和隐私研究的首要计划。新的主要研究者，我们称之为有抱负的PI，经常发现撰写他们的第一个成功的SaTC资助提案令人生畏和困难。该项目资助了一个为期1.5天的研讨会，以支持这些有抱负的PI准备竞争性的SaTC资助提案。研讨会的目标是为有抱负的PI提供指导和直接反馈，这些PI可以是他们的第一次提交尝试，也可以是对以前拒绝的提案的修改。该研讨会的新颖之处在于与导师就他们的研究计划进行一对一的会议，参与模拟NSF的价值审查过程的模拟小组，以及制定研究执行摘要。这些活动旨在帮助有抱负的PI制定引人注目的综合研究计划。该研讨会的更广泛的意义和重要性是这些活动将产生更好的影响，使来自各种机构和背景的有抱负的PI能够撰写有竞争力的SaTC提案，更好地反映国家研究人员的广度和他们的想法。撰写一份成功的资助提案通常需要对社区期望和规范有大量的隐性知识。经验丰富的PI（即，他们的同事利用过去审查提案的经验，以及与同行讨论的“民间知识”。缺乏这种经验的有抱负的PI通常在竞争性融资过程中取得较低的成功，即使他们的智力想法可能与经验丰富的PI相匹配或超过这些。值得注意的是，经验丰富的PI更有可能在已经获得NSF慷慨支持的大型大学工作，成为现有专业网络的一部分，并且来自相同的学术谱系。有抱负的PI研讨会旨在确保有抱负的PI关于改善国家安全和隐私的想法与经验丰富的PI的想法处于更公平的竞争环境中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估而被认为值得支持。